Inforrm is taking a Summer Break

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The Inforrm blog is taking a summer break until the end of September. We thank all our readers and contributors who have supported us over the past year. Posting will continue over the summer but will not be as regular as normal.

We have now had over 3.5 million page views since February 2010. There have been nearly 3,600 posts from dozens of different contributors.

Over the past six years we have sought to cover the full range of media and law issues – from the “libel reform” debate, through “super injunction spring” and phone hacking firestorm” into issues of media regulation and the impact of the Defamation Act 2013 and the “right to delist”.

A number of important media law cases have been decided by the English courts in the past 12 months including

In December 2015, the Court of Appeal dismissed the Mirror Phone Hacking Appeals, approving an approach to privacy damages which produces considerably higher awards. In March 2016, the Supreme Court refused the Mirror permission to appeal.

Please let us know if there you think that are any other topics that we should be covering on Inforrm.

Finally, we repeat our invitation to anyone who is interested in a guest post (or repost) on any of the topics which we cover. Subject to the usual rules of lawfulness, decency and the avoidance of gratuitous personal attacks we accept contributions on media and legal topics from all points of view. Please let us have any suggestions by email at inforrmeditorial@gmail.com.